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What is HR In Charge of Anyway?

21 February 2013

Human Resources is different than recruiting which is different than hiring. If you find yourself at a small company, chances are you may find yourself doing all three jobs, sometimes all in one day. Here are some basic primers on each job and how to manage them when you’re wearing more than one hat in…

What Does Your Time-to-Fill Really Say?

10 August 2015

What is your company’s current time-to-fill? How does it compare to the 27-day national average ? Is it longer? Shorter? What’s your industry? How much money do you lose by not filling that position? How vital is a given position to your organization? Why are we asking all these questions? Because a metric like “time-to-fill”…

What Candidates Want, What Employees Need....

12 August 2013

Recruiters can quickly get sucked into their own world, meaning that filling the position is all they see at the end of the tunnel. And that’s a great Key Performance Indicator, after all, recruiters depend on getting “butts in seats.” Whether you’re corporate or agency, the mark of a good recruiter is finding the right…

We’ve Moved! See Trakstar’s New San Fran Space

20 February 2015

As Trakstar continues to hire the best in tech and recruiting to match our business growth, we needed a bigger and better place to accommodate the size of our team. So, we moved into the SHARED building in San Francisco’s South Market. We’re excited about the change in location, and I don’t think we could…

WARNING: Profession Undergoing Maintenance

09 September 2014

“Competing for tech talent never gets easier, nor is it a perfect mathematical equation. Instead it’s about understanding your market, knowing what your current and prospective employees are looking for, and doing your best to create the environment that attracts the right workers to your company.” – Stacey Carroll, principal consultant at PayScale Carroll is…

Vital Tips On Recruiting for your Franchise

27 April 2012

Staff recruitment is all important when it comes to running a franchise. Ensuring that you recruit the right kind of people to work with you can make the difference between a franchise that thrives in the long term, and one that fails to succeed at all. An almost inevitable by-product of a good recruitment policy…

Utilizing Technology for Hiring

10 April 2014

Companies all over the world are searching for potential employees to become a part of their teams. The hiring process can be long and arduous, sometimes taking months before the perfect candidate is found. The longer the hiring process, the more it costs. This can cause the company to go over budget or even result…

Using “The Other Three” in Social Recruiting

10 March 2014

Known as the “ Big Three ”: LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook have led the way in social recruiting. It makes sense, connections are simple to make, there are vast pools of data to be collected and these are where internet users are spending massive amounts of their time. While the Big Three are the place…

Using Social Media in your Recruiting Strategy

23 May 2012

For the past decade the it word has been “social media.” Our worlds are alight with posts, tweets, and check-ins, all of which provide an incredible amount of insight into who we are as individuals. By extension, such sites also offer opportunities with which to better scan and select new hires for your company. Yet…

Two Keys to Working Remotely

09 July 2015

Let’s take a look under the hood. Here at Trakstar, we’ve got two distinct teams . We’ve got a technical team in India, where two of our co-founders and a staff of about 25 engineers build product. They all work out of an office in Bangalore. Then there’s the U.S.-based team, where everyone works remotely.…